: A known quirk of many IOL repacks is that interfaces may show as "up/up" even when no cable is connected in the simulator, requiring manual shut/no-shut commands to trigger state changes.
Repacking the i86bi-linux-l2-ipbasek9-15.1g.bin file is a common task for network engineers using Cisco IOU (IOS on Unix) i86bilinuxl2ipbasek9151gbin repack